Travel Nurse RN - Emergency Room (ER) / Trauma in Chula Vista, CA

Collaborates with interdisciplinary healthcare team members to coordinate patient care activities, manage complex clinical situations, and expedite patient progress. Delegates and assigns care to other healthcare team members within their scope of practice and communicates patient care needs through thorough documentation per department policies and procedures.

Job Title

Registered Nurse – Emergency Room

Location

Chula Vista, California

Schedule / Job Type

Contract | Onsite

Key Responsibilities

• Provides individualized, holistic, and age-specific patient and family care that progresses patients toward self-identified goals using the nursing process.
• Performs comprehensive assessments, develops plans of care, implements nursing interventions, and evaluates patient and family progress toward established goals.
• Serves as a patient and family advocate, encouraging participation in decision-making and upholding individual and family rights.
• Collaborates with interdisciplinary healthcare team members to coordinate patient care activities, manage complex clinical situations, and expedite patient progress.
• Identifies and addresses patient and family educational needs through individualized education plans, applying adult-learning theory and appropriate resources.
• Delegates and assigns care to other healthcare team members within their scope of practice and communicates patient care needs through thorough documentation per department policies and procedures.

Required Qualifications

• Active California Registered Nurse (RN) license required.
• Minimum of three years of recent RN experience in an RN role.
• Minimum of two years of recent RN experience in a specialty area.
• Associate Degree in Nursing (ADN) or Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) required.
• Current BLS, ACLS, NIH Stroke Scale, and PALS certifications required.
• CPI or comparable crisis prevention/intervention certification required (must be an 8-hour course with at least half of the class completed in person).

Preferred Experience / Skills

• Experience working in an Emergency Room or high-acuity clinical environment.
• Demonstrated ability to recognize and respond to complex, new, or high-risk clinical situations with appropriate resource utilization.

Why Join Us

• Opportunity to work in a dynamic Emergency Room setting providing high-quality, patient-centered care.
• Contract role offering flexibility and the chance to contribute to a collaborative, multidisciplinary healthcare team.